Over the past decade, the government has spent hundreds of millions of pounds establishing a network of What Works Centres aimed at generating an evidence base to identify the most effective interventions with children, young people and families.
The investment reflects a growing recognition that policy makers increasingly value the role of evidence in social policy, ranging from education, early years, children’s social care, policing and homelessness.
What Works Centres including the Early Intervention Foundation and other sector bodies like the Centre for Youth Impact are developing new approaches to measuring the quality of services and creating frameworks that can then be used by the sector at large.
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